SS Stettin (1886)

Career
Name: SS Stettin
Operator: Norddeutscher Lloyd
Builder: AG Vulcan Stettin[1]
Launched: 1886[1]
Career
Name: Loong Yue
Career
Name: Ryuyu Maru
Operator: Showa Kosen Gyogyo KK
Port of registry: Japan Tokyo[1]
Fate: Scapped 1931[1]
General characteristics
Tonnage:2,178 GT[1]
Length:316.0 m (1,036 ft 9 in)[1]
Beam:35.4 m (116 ft 2 in)[1]
Depth:24.5 m (80 ft 5 in)[1]

The steamship Stettin was a German cargo vessel launched in 1886 built by AG Vulcan Stettin and operated by Norddeutscher Lloyd.[1]

In March 1899, Stettin assisted the German unprotected cruiser SMS Cormoran, which had run aground off New Pomerania.[2]

Stettin was later renamed Loong Yue and then finally was acquired by Showa Kosen Gyogyo KK and rename Ryuyu Maru before ultimately being broken up for scrap in 1931.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 "LLOYD'S REGISTER, STEAMERS & MOTORSHIPS 1930-31". Plimsoll Ship Data. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  2. Hildebrand, Röhr, & Steinmetz, p. 194

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